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‘PUBLICOLA’, pseud.
An answer to an audacious letter from John Angelo Belloni, dated Rome the 4th of May, 1732. N.S....
London, [s.n.], 1732.
An extremely rare pamphlet of economic and political interest, relating to fraudulent activity in the Charitable Corporation and to one of the chief culprit’s rumoured links to the Old Pretender.
£450
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SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works … in ten Volumes …
Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904[–1907].
The handsome ‘Stratford Town’ Shakespeare, no. 495 of 1000 copies on Bachelor hand-made paper, edited and with notes by Arthur Henry Bullen (1857–1920).
£1250
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[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]
Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee” July 1, 1897’.
Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.
An attractive album memorialising a garden party in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria held at Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire under the sponsorship of John Hungerford Arkwright (1833–1905), later Lord Lieutenant of that county. The photographer, Francis Preece (1853–1928),...
£500
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WARD, Colin.
Anarchy in Action.
London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973.
First edition. Separating the notion of anarchism from industrial and political struggles, Ward seeks its root in everyday experience. ‘The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the...
£190
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BUQUOY, Georg Franz August de Longueval, Freiherr von Vaux, Graf von.
Anregungen für philosophisch-wissenschaftliche Forschung...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1825.
First edition, rare, of a comprehensive discussion by the author of his personal philosophy, with c. 50 pages of his poetry thrown in at the end for good measure.
£950
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MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.
La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino con la Marineide risate del Murtola.
‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph Stamphier, 1619.
Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque sonnets presenting both sides of the bitterly satirical literary feud between the leading Italian Baroque poet Giambattista Marino and his adversary, Gasparo Murtola, containing Marino’s celebrated argument that the aim of the poet is to inspire wonder.
£900
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TURNER, Sharon.
The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the creation and subsequent events to the deluge. Attempted to...
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1832 [– 1834; – 1837].
First edition, each volume with a presentation letter from the author (dated 1 March 1832, 12 December 1834, and 27 March 1837 respectively) to the classical scholar Thomas Gaisford.
£500
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[GEORGE V.]
The Form and Order of the Service that is to be performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation...
Oxford, Horace Hart at the University Press, [1911].
A scarce edition of the order of service for the coronation of George V and Mary of Teck, attractively printed at the Oxford University Press.
£125
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OVID.
P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.
First Elzevir edition, newly edited by Daniel Heinsius based on the Plantin edition of 1578.
£500
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[PSALMS.]
The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meter by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, W. Whittingaam [sic],...
London, printed by T. C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1637.
A very attractive pocket psalm book with printed music, ruled in red throughout and in a handsome binding.
£2750
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SAINT AULAIRE, Achille.
Voyage autour du monde par St. Aulaire.
[Clichy, Maurice Loignon for] Paris, Arnauld de Vresse, [c. 1864].
A hand-coloured copy of this scarce and charming juvenile guide to twenty-four countries across the globe. The plates are adapted from those first published in Paris by Aubert c. 1845 under the title Récréations instructives: voyage pittoresque à travers le monde (Gumuchian 5037).
£1250
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SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.
Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of Akbur of Betlis. Containing Reflections on the Laws, Manners, Customs...
London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and their Royal Highnesses the Princes, 1784–5.
First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired treatise drawing upon the author’s experience in India and his travels in Europe.
£750
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China. Descripcion breve...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian Anisson, 1676.
Scarce first edition, one of the most important early studies of Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and culture, by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Navarrete (d. 1689).
£4750
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HELVÉTIUS, Claude Adrien.
De l’homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation.
Londres, Société Typographique [recte The Hague], 1773.
A rare edition, published in the same year as the first, which appeared in mid-June 1773, eighteen months after the author’s death. ‘In this edition, there is no comma after “intellectuelles”, line 6 of title reads “et de son”and the titlepage ornament is a flower with leaves around...
£1200
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its past and present Effects on human Happiness;...
London, Johnson, 1803.
Second edition, first published 1798. Called the ‘Great Quarto’, it is the first to bear Malthus’s name and is so revised by Malthus as to be ‘regarded by [him] as a substantially new work’ (ODNB).
£5750
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MILLAR, John.
Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society. Under the following Heads: I. Of the Ranks and Condition...
London, J. Murray, 1773.
Second London edition, ‘greatly enlarged’, first published 1771.
£1750
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MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.
Miscellaneous Pieces … translated from the new Edition of his Works in Quarto printed...
London, Wilson and Durham, 1759.
Only edition thus, apparently the first appearance in English of these pieces.
£525
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FERGUSON, Adam.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society.
Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768.
Third edition, corrected: the edition owned by Thomas Jefferson.
£700
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CAREY, Henry Charles.
The Past, the Present and the Future.
Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.
First edition. Carey vigorously appeals for tariff protection and attacks the Ricardian theory of rent. He argues that ‘the historical sequence of cultivation at least in the United States was the exact reverse of the one proposed by Ricardo, namely, from inferior to superior land, apparently...
£375
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842.
First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s principal work, the outline of positivism.
£1600